Qi Zhao


2024

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EPO: Hierarchical LLM Agents with Environment Preference Optimization
Qi Zhao | Haotian Fu | Chen Sun | George Konidaris
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Long-horizon decision-making tasks present significant challenges for LLM-based agents due to the need for extensive planning over multiple steps. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical framework that decomposes complex tasks into manageable subgoals, utilizing separate LLMs for subgoal prediction and low-level action generation. To address the challenge of creating training signals for unannotated datasets, we develop a reward model that leverages multimodal environment feedback to automatically generate reward signals. We introduce Environment Preference Optimization (EPO), a novel method that generates preference signals from the environment’s feedback and uses them to train LLM-based agents. Extensive experiments on ALFRED demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our framework, achieving first place on the ALFRED public leaderboard and showcasing its potential to improve long-horizon decision-making in diverse environments.

2020

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Representation Learning for Information Extraction from Form-like Documents
Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder | Navneet Potti | Sandeep Tata | James Bradley Wendt | Qi Zhao | Marc Najork
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

We propose a novel approach using representation learning for tackling the problem of extracting structured information from form-like document images. We propose an extraction system that uses knowledge of the types of the target fields to generate extraction candidates and a neural network architecture that learns a dense representation of each candidate based on neighboring words in the document. These learned representations are not only useful in solving the extraction task for unseen document templates from two different domains but are also interpretable, as we show using loss cases.

2010

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Learning to Detect Hedges and their Scope Using CRF
Qi Zhao | Chengjie Sun | Bingquan Liu | Yong Cheng
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning – Shared Task